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Informationen zum Autor Niamh Gallagher is a lecturer in modern British and Irish history and a fellow of St Catharine’s College at the University of Cambridge, UK. Klappentext On 4 August 1914 following the outbreak of European hostilities, large sections of Irish Protestants and Catholics rallied to support the British and Allied war efforts. Yet less than two years later, the Easter Rising of 1916 allegedly put a stop to the Catholic commitment in exchange for a re-emphasis on the national question.In Ireland and the Great War Niamh Gallagher draws upon a formidable array of original research to offer a radical new reading of Irish involvement in the world's first total war. Exploring the 'home front' and Irish diasporic communities in Canada, Australia, and Britain, Gallagher reveals that substantial support for the Allied war effort continued largely unabated not only until November 1918, but afterwards as well. Rich in social texture and with fascinating new case studies of Irish participation in the conflict, this book has the makings of a major rethinking of Ireland's twentieth century. Zusammenfassung On 4 August 1914 following the outbreak of European hostilities, large sections of Irish Protestants and Catholics rallied to support the British and Allied war efforts. Yet less than two years later, the Easter Rising of 1916 allegedly put a stop to the Catholic commitment in exchange for a re-emphasis on the national question.In Ireland and the Great War Niamh Gallagher draws upon a formidable array of original research to offer a radical new reading of Irish involvement in the world’s first total war. Exploring the ‘home front’ and Irish diasporic communities in Canada, Australia, and Britain, Gallagher reveals that substantial support for the Allied war effort continued largely unabated not only until November 1918, but afterwards as well. Rich in social texture and with fascinating new case studies of Irish participation in the conflict, this book has the makings of a major rethinking of Ireland’s twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis I. Introduction Contradictions Irish Civil Society The Evidence Chapter OutlineII. Memory, History, and the Great War Remembering and Writing 1914 to 1918 Politics and Irish Nationalism Reappraising the WarIII. Irishwomen and War-Relief on the Home Front War-relief across Ireland War-work in Southern Ireland War-work in Ulster An all-Irish Endeavor?IV. The War at Sea: Encountering the German 'Enemy' Bringing Ireland within the War Zone Rural Ireland and "Black '47" Ireland's 'Enemy' V. Greater Ireland and Catholic Loyalism Moderate Nationalism and the War Irish Catholic Loyalism 'Ireland's half million' Meeting Irish-CanadaVI. Irish Catholics, Britain, and the Allies The 'death of innocence', 1914-1915 Home Rule, Recruitment and Britain, 1914-16 Politics, Conscription, and Recruitment, 1916-18 A Righteous DefenceVII. Conclusion: Ireland's War?...
